... ELECTION. INEWS. THE REPRESENTATfQO OF MID-LOTHIAN. [ 0 MR GLADSTONE'S CANDIDA RE. S A meeting of the electors and non-electors favour- S able so the return of MrGladstonefornid-Lothian. was ei held last night in the Assembly Rooms, West Calders There was aZ lerge attendance, and Air Smith, Muir. house, occupied the chair. S On the motion of Dr Watson. seconded by the Rev. Mr Wardrop, it was ...

... THE MOVEMENTS OF TROOPS. DISTRESS IN CABUL. THE ATTITUDE OF YAXOOB KHAN. We have received the following telegram from the India Office:- [TELEGRAM FROM VICZaoY-FEBR UARy 14TH.] Stewart was at Robat on the 9th, two marches from Candahar. Part of force returning from Khelat-i- I Ghilzai by Arghassan and Argandab Valleys, in which I supplies have been easily procurable, reconnaisances f and ...

... Wasp —The aenual of this yesterday— ‘eile in the chair. The annuai report the total income for last year was £306 12s 4d, expenditure £200 19s, leaving a surplus of £5 lie 4d, The & for next gem sem the Action ror sy 4 Worxmay slater named M'‘Caff: in the his damages for injuries em- fell from the roof of a at the Albert Harbour injuries the effects of for to work. that the the defender was ...

... MERCANTILE IN VESTMENT —_—_— The bers was held last night within the Was & good (of Cameron & chairman of the society, submitted the annual directors to the members, and accountant), and cortiied by report sho auditors. The versal 400 shares had been subscribed for, prevailing during year, upwards £2900 advanced to members, the total and nearly shares bein 2427, a subscribed capital of £60,675 ...

... THE ZULU .W.AR. BRITISH VICTORIES. EXPECTED ATTACK IN FORCE BY THE ZULUS. GRAVE POSITION OF AFFAIRS. Cape Town, January 20 (via Madeia, by Uuion steamer Asiatic). On January 24 Colonel Wood's column was attacked by a body of 4000 Zulus. The engage- ment resulted in a victory for the British troops, the enemy being completely scattered. The British sustained only trifling loss. The force under ...

... SIR BAPTLE FRERE'S POLICY. e LEAVING over for future consideration the ,- question who must be blamed for the blunder' ir of which Cletewayo's Generals made a use sot eprompt and tragic, we may see in that memor-'] 'rable incident a proof only too cogent and con- e elusive that Sir Bartle Frere did not over- a estimate the Zulu peril. Opinion at home hoped even against hope that war might be ...

... MAGISTRATES’ TRANSFEB COURL _ Yesterday the Magistrates held a Court in the purpose of consideri City for the of spirit dealers’ certin- cates. Bailie Ure presided, and on the bench were ams, Scott, MacBean, Clark, Thomson, and Farquhar—Mr Cunningham | Superintendent stated that there were 33 applications the Court, 2 of which were for | transfers for hotels, 32 tor public-houses, and 5 for ...

... AERIVED AT Gla (oh Mla, Eos Laurel, 79, (Tennen, from Beliast—moulding Waverley, 32, M‘Lenchisn, from Holy Loch— Crystal Stream, 120, Kimdell, from Teignmouth— Julia, 89, Wyatt, from Par—clay. FROM GLASGOW. St George, 898, Hall, for Rio de Janeiro — cast Anna, 262, Nielsen, for Port Natal—general cargo. a eee ARRIVED AT THE TAIL OF THE BANK State of (s), from New York to Glasgow— Trygve, 208, ...

... the Kin Kingdom 1763 newspapers, fe q Of these there are— On reference to the edition of this useful tory for the year 1854 we find the in the United , that in that year there ; of these 20 16 Scotiand, and 3 in Ireland ; bat in there are now culated 1763 of which no less than 151 that the press country has nearly years. The increase bet 151 against 20 in 1854. The magazines now in course of ...

... ELECTION NEWS, MR GLADSTONE’S ATURE FOR . A of electors and favour- FP wap Ne for Mid- Calder. was held last night in the Assembly Rooms, West ‘There was a aud Mr the chair. On the motion of Dr Warson, seconded the Kev, it was agreed as follows:—‘“*That conferred on the electors of Mid- by Mr Gladstone in acceding ‘to their to contest the county sensible of the importance of merely to Mid ...

... )lo ~of A meeting of the Aberdeen Philosophical Society ofwas held last night in Watson's Rooms-Sheriff Comnrie __Thomson presiding-to hear a communication by DMr iyJohn Miller, Sandilands, on the above subject. The .-ypaper was as follows:- ble Some 20 years ago I read a paper before the society to uponl the application of town -sewage to agricultural i;purposes, but the one now about to be ...

... ed (Feast oul PARLIAMENTARY CoaaMseoXaaNnerj DleI to TeeweeLOaNDON, Monday n~ight. fT heewr about thirty questions on the paper of a1.t the House of Commons this eveniing, besidesabout halfa-a y, scorecofinotices of motion. The former were started by fr St Sir Alexander Gordon, who sticks to the seat below the ti r' Opposition gangway, where be soughtrefuge lastasesion a from the annoyances he ...